Isn't it funny how we can think that we know something, but if someone asks us to explain

it in detail, sometimes we end up stumbling a bit and going back to correct ourselves.

And that's when we realize that we didn't really know it.

Telling what we think we know is a powerful tool that we can use to make sure we've

really got it, that the knowledge is our

own possession. And it's a tool that we can teach our children to use, too. Here's how.

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This idea of finding out how much you really know was brought home to me when I was arranging to have lunch with a friend. We were trying to answer, well, one of the most difficult questions that can ever be posed to two people.

Where do you want to eat?

I had spotted a pizza place recently that looked promising, so I suggested it and she agreed.

We had a winner, until she asked me where it was.

Now I had a general idea of which road it was on and I had mentally filed it under between

home and church.

But I couldn't get much more detailed than that.

Thankfully she popped the restaurant into her mapping app, and it told

her what I could not. But it was a bit embarrassing. And it reminded me how often we think we know

something, we think we've made it our own, until someone asks us to explain the details.

And as we fumble for the right words and go back and correct

ourselves a few times, we realize how casual our knowledge really is. Charlotte Mason hit

the nail on the head when she said, whatever a child or grown-up person can tell, that we

may be sure he knows. And what he cannot

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